Sentences with phrase «liquid crystal elastomer»
«Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile ``, Greta Babakhanova, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo, Matthew Hendrikx, Qi - Huo Wei, Albert P.H.J. Schenning, Dirk J. Broer & Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Nature Communications 9, Article number: 456 (2018), DOI: 10.1038 / s41467 -018-02895-9
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The disc was made of a polymerised liquid crystal elastomer, a rubbery material that alters shape in response to heat.
The prototype adaptive soft robot includes a liquid crystal elastomer, doped with carbon black nanoparticles to enhance thermal conductivity, as the artificial muscle, combined with ultrathin mesh shaped stretchable thermal actuators and silicon - based light sensors.
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, originally developed in the LENS Institute in Florence, demonstrated a bioinspired micro-robot capable of mimicking caterpillar gaits in natural scale.
Impressio uses liquid crystal elastomer technology, which mimics muscles and shock - absorbing cartilage, to create dissipative liner materials for protective equipment.
It can handle a multitude of stiff and elastic materials including hydrogels, silver nanoparticle - based conductive inks, liquid crystal elastomers and shape memory polymers, or SMPs.
Liquid crystal elastomers are spatially patterned to create microactuators with controlled local volume changes.
Not exact matches
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Many of these materials are not new: hydrogels, liquid - crystal elastomers, and even more conventional polymers like polystyrene.